802.11v Wireless Standard To Lower Power Consumption
Category: NetworkingPosted: September 19, 2008 01:23PM
Author: jammin
Work on the 802.11v wireless LAN standard began in 2004 and is scheduled to finish in 2010, with power saving measures being among the features you can expect. That will include a Sleep Mode that could see devices such as Wi-Fi phones making the most savings. There will also be management features which allow for greater detail when analysing network performance, as well as features that will improve accuracy for location based services such radio frequency identification (RFID). It's certainly hard to keep up with standards and what they offer, which may be even more confusing when you start running out of letters to denote them (there is already an 802.11aa task group apparently).
